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Subject: Re: Reich, paranoia & conspiracy - Mon, 22 Jan 1996
21:03:54 -0500
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:03:54 -0500
From: Jim Martin <flatland@mail.mcn.org>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Reich, paranoia & conspiracy
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Chris Caruso: & the OML
>I realize that I have no chance whatsoever of convincing two of the leading
>publishers of conspiracy theories of my point.
Kenn and I like to think we look at these things a little critically. Despite
the load of dirt I've dug up, I'm in aggreement with Shawn regarding the
"unconscious conspiracy". I appreciate your critical comments about my
overhurried tale of intruigue. I realize I have to document what I've said, and
I'll post a couple of articles I've written on these facts.
Remember, it was Reich's term, "the Rockefeller interests." "The Rockefeller
interests" are broad, diffuse, yet coordinated. It goes back to Norway, when
Reich was experimenting with bions and cancer cells. There was a Rockefeller
Cancer Institute in Norway that supplied a lot of animus toward Reich's work.
The doctors there refused to hear him out; their attacks were published in the
Norweigian press, the words they used were identical to later attacks appearing
in America (reference: Red Thread of Conspiracy).
In America, the attack on Reich began with articles in the New Republic. This
was in the late forties, when Michael Straight was the publisher. An interesting
report on the Straight family's role in manipulating the left was written by
Carroll Quigley in Tragedy & Hope. I wrote an article on that which I could post
on the OML. It documents the twisted parapolitics surrounding Reich's
persecution. It's significant that Nelson Rockefeller gave the New Republic at
least $5,000 we know about, and had a close cooperation with Michael Straight.
In Straight's autobiography, he discussed at length his participation in the
Anthony Blunt-Kim Philby spy ring. He passed state department documents to
Philby. He hired communists at the New Republic and those communists attacked
Reich. Mildred Brady's article in the New Republic contained many phrases
identical to those found in the Rockefeller Foundation doctors in Norway.
(references: Moise, Red Thread of Conspiracy, Tragedy & Hope, by Carroll Quigley
and After Long Silence, by Michael Straight.)
Finally, Lewis Douglas was mentioned in Contact With Space as assisting Reich in
finding a property in Tucson for Reich's desert atmospheric research. Douglas
was heavily invested in uranium, and was so interested in rainmaking he was the
first man appointed to Eisenhower's Presidential Commission on Weather
Modification and he obtained over $150,000 to start the Institute of Atmospheric
Physics at the University of Arizona. Part of that money came from the
Rockefeller Foundation (Standard Oil), and the bulk came from the Sloan
Foundation (General Motors). Douglas was a board member of both foundations,
along with many others. A major component of the research was to be solar energy
alternatives. Note the funding and its sources. Note that nothing came of this
massive funding in regards to solar energy and cloudseeding. Am I justified in
my supsicions? Conspiracy, or business as usual: call it what you want. Just
follow the money.
Douglas contacted Reich, not the other way around. Douglas was a very powerful
man, the kind of person who could have turned around Reich's legal predicament
with a few phone calls. His close college friend and brother-in-law, John J.
McCloy, was having no problems resolving the legal difficulties of imported Nazi
doctors, some of whom had somewhat more serious legal entanglements than Reich.
There's a lot of research yet to be done on the Lew Douglas issue. But I've
verified the connection from many different sources, including an eye witness,
Joe Blankenship, who still lives in Tucson. Lew Douglas was keeping a close eye
on Reich in Tucson, and could not have been happy when Reich located radioactive
waste been dumped into Tucson's water supply. (References: contemporary Tucson
newspaper reports, The Chairman by Kai Bird, author's interview with Joe
Blankenship, Lewis S. Douglas' entry in Who Was Who, Contact With Space).
As for the films, believe it or not, Lewis Douglas' Institute of Amosperic
Physics (IAP) at the University of Arizona took miles of 8mm film of their own
weather modification experiments. Newspaper reports at that time mentioned that
the Air Force was lending jets to the IAP for its work. I obtained the original
films from the IAP last year, and they clearly show jet contrails in a grid
pattern, making it easier to track the movement of the atmosphere. This is
physical evidence that Reich was not fantasizing these jets overhead. Nor were
Eva Reich and Bob McCullough suffering from group hypnosis. Interestingly, all
the films taken during the time Reich was in Tucson were missing. Reich left
such detailed protocols of his cloudbusting operations, these films could
provide independent verification of his own observations.
As for the Ea or UFOs that Reich and his daughter reported seeing, I don't know
that one has to buy the extra-terrestial thesis. Fort Huachuca, a few miles from
Tucson, was testing drones and all sorts of experimental aircraft at that time.
But then again, who knows? Why did the commanding officer at Wright-Patterson
AFB make special efforts to meet with Bill Moise, with special information from
Wilhelm Reich who had already been defamed by the FDA and the subject of a
murderous media blitz?
I'm writing a book that will explore the questions surrounding Reich's trip to
Tucson. A lot of this new material is coming at me at high speed, so forgive my
loose connections. I want to make the case as best I can, and your criticism
helps me do that. I can understand, however, if you choose not to add fuel to
the fire, it'll only encourage me. I don't want to pontificate at the exclusion
of other views, I'm just looking for feedback from those interested.
Part of my limitation is the relative unavailability of Contact With Space. Who
the hell's going to know what I'm raving about?
Another limitation is that the standard biography of Reich, Fury on Earth, is
ambivalent about the very existence of orgone energy and very weak on the Tucson
period in particular. I can understand, since Sharaf's wife left him to be with
Reich in Tucson. Sharaf holds out several examples of Reich's paranoiac
delusions: the notion that Air Force jets were flying around his cloudbusting
operations, that there was a "red fascist conspiracy" against him, and that high
government officials interested in his work. Maybe Reich was paranoid, but not
for these three reasons.
-Jim Martin
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